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10 Céntimos Villardompardo
| Issuer | Comité del Frente Popular de Villardompardo |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of coarse cream paper, with faint pink traces of the obverse validation stamp visible in show-through on the thin stock. |
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| Protection description | Hand-applied circular rubber stamp in pink/red ink on the obverse, serving as the sole authentication device required for validity as stated in the note's own text. |
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Villardompardo is a small municipality in Jaén province, Andalusia — population in the hundreds — and this note is exactly what you'd expect from a village committee scrambling to maintain local commerce after the July 1936 military uprising severed normal banking functions across Republican-held Spain. The Comité del Frente Popular assumed emergency administrative authority and issued fractional céntimos notes to address an acute shortage of metallic small change, a problem that afflicted hundreds of Nationalist and Republican localities alike during the first chaotic weeks of the Civil War.
The validation stamp is the only real security measure — entirely typical for locally produced emergency scrip of this period, where the stamp of the issuing authority substituted for any printing sophistication.